An improved BTK algorithm based on cell-like P system with active membranes

Abstract

BTK algorithm is an efficient algorithm for mining top-rank-k frequent patterns. It proposes new tree and list structures to store the information, employs subsume index concept, early pruning strategy and threshold raising method to reduce the search space. In this paper, a fast BTK algorithm, called CP-BTK algorithm is proposed, which is based on cell-like P system with active membranes. Cell-like P system is new computing model inspired from biological cells, operations in cell-like P system are distributed and parallel, so it can save time and improve the efficiency of algorithm greatly. And finally a example is given to illustrate the practicability and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.